Publications

The article describes some of the main political events which took place in Togo in mid to late 1991, at a time when the power of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma was facing more serious opposition than at any time since his assumption of the presidency twenty-four years earlier...

External factors - the change in the international climate following the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the publication at almost the same time of the World Bank's report 'From crisis to sustainable growth', in which the Bank for the first time linked...

Although the Ethiopian Transitional Government has been attempting since 1991 to set up new national and regional structures of administration and cooperation that may eventually lead to some form of locally entrenched, ethnic-based democracy, these are not yet fully in place...

The Suri, also known as Surma, are agropastoralists living in the semiarid lowland area of the Kafa Administrative Region of Ethiopia. The Suri language belongs to the South-East Surmic (SES) language group within the Eastern Sudanic family of Nilo-Saharan. The Suri-English...

The present article offers a descriptive survey of the most important plants used by the Southeast Surmic-speaking Me'en in southwestern Käfa, Ethiopia, based on information gathered over a period of 14-months field research (1989-1991). Data covering the Me'en name...

Over the past few years (1985-1991), the Suri of the far southwest of Ethiopia have lived through a deep ecological and social crisis without substantial external aid from either the Ethiopian government or international aid agencies. They have experienced drought, cattle...

The present report is a compilation of summaries detailing the results and recommendations of the more than twenty studies completed to date as part of the Food and Nutrition Studies Programme (FNSP), an international cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Planning and...

Au cours des années 1980, la foresterie rurale a été introduite au Sénégal sous forme de divers projets. Après une introduction qui traite des problèmes d'environnement, de la politique forestière et de la participation villageoise à la foresterie du pays, ce livre...

Les articles présentés ici font suite à une conférence organisée par le Centre d'études africaines de Leyde en collaboration avec le MESIRES (ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de l'Informatique et de la Recherche scientifique) de Yaoundé sur l'...

This article is an editorial introduction to the five contributions to a two-day Dutch-Belgian workshop on ethnicity in Africa (Leiden, The Netherlands, December 1991) selected for publication in the present issue of 'Afrika Focus'. It highlights various aspects of...

It has proved possible and worthwhile to organize regular auctions for a few African export crops, namely tea, tobacco and coffee. Such auctions were first introduced in British East Africa in the 1930s and today, East Africa and the former British territories (Kenya,...

The Mijikenda are a Bantu people living in the hinterland of southern Kenya. This paper examines two key resources of Mijikenda agriculture that have undergone profound transformations during the period under study (1850-1985): land and labour. External pressures and internal...

Ce rapport présente un aperçu de la littérature sur la démocratisation en Afrique au sud du Sahara (1989-1992). D'abord, les auteurs évoquent un certain nombre de traits dominants de la vie politique en Afrique qui forment l'arrière-plan nécessaire à comprendre les...

This report gives an overview of the literature on recent democratization processes in sub-Saharan Africa (1989-1992). The authors first deal with the basic features of African politics that can serve as a framework within which present-day democratization developments can be...

This report is a historical-anthropological study of the survival strategies of urban women in the town of Bamenda in West Cameroon, insofar as they are related to changing access to land. The emphasis is on historical developments from the sixties on, a period in which the...

This article describes the interaction between citizens and the State legal system in the Uluguru mountains of Tanzania, an area where the higher rainfall allows for more intensive agriculture than in the surrounding plains, and where higher population densities and declining...

This article explains why people in Mgeta Division in the Uluguru mountains, Morogoro District, Tanzania, become locked in long and expensive land disputes. These disputes cannot be explained as rational choice strategies: the value of the land involved bears no relation to...